Few items that might be of interest…Am NOT back posting on a regular basis
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ARTICLES:
A. New Report Exposes Investors Bankrolling Land Theft and Human Rights Violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo – March 16, 2021
Investors Bankrolling Land Theft, Human Rights Violations in DRC | The Oakland Institute
B. White House Can Stop Haiti’s Descent into Dictatorship – March 15, 2021
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/03/15/white-house-can-stop-haitis-descent-into-dictatorship/
C. UN expert asked to send team to look into attacks on lawyers in Phl – March 15, 2021
UN expert asked to send team to look into attacks on lawyers in Philippines | Philstar.com
D. It’s 10 years since the war in Syria began, and Western media & pundits are still eager to keep it going – March 15, 2021
It’s 10 years since the war in Syria began, and Western media & pundits are still eager to keep it going — RT Op-ed
E. Tamir Rice’s Mom Accuses Tamika Mallory, Ben Crump, Others Of ‘Chasing Clout’ – March 15, 2021
Tamir Rice’s Mom Accuses Tamika Mallory, Ben Crump Of ‘Chasing Clout’ | NewsOne
F. 5 former OPCW officials join prominent voices to call out Syria cover-up – March 14, 2020
5 former OPCW officials join prominent voices to call out Syria cover-up | The Grayzone
G. Judge upholds gag order on SF Bay View editor – March 13, 2021
Judge upholds gag order on SF Bay View editor
H. Children packed into Border Patrol tent for days on end – March 12, 2021
Children packed into Border Patrol tent for days on end (apnews.com)
I. CCSF community outraged over proposed cuts, layoffs – March 12, 2021
CCSF community outraged over proposed cuts, layoffs – The San Francisco Examiner (sfexaminer.com)
J. Nestle to sell N.American water brands for $4.3 billion, focus on premium lines – February 16, 2021
Nestle to sell N.American water brands for $4.3 billion, focus on premium lines | Reuters
See event # 11
ACTIONS / PETITIONS
1. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner: Stop Defending Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Unjust Conviction
SIGN: Stop Defending Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Unjust Conviction | OrganizeFor
2. Keep Homestead Child Detention Center Closed
SIGN: Keep Homestead Child Detention Center Closed | MoveOn
3. Don’t Reauthorize the PATRIOT ACT
SIGN: Take Action: Good Riddance Patriot Act! (salsalabs.org)
4. Tell your Representative: Fracking is not clean energy!
SIGN: FOE: Take Action
5. Tell NOAA: Protect ocean ecosystems from floating factory farms!
SIGN: FOE: Take Action
6. Demand Safe Access to Abortion Now
SIGN: DEMAND SAFE ACCESS TO ABORTION NOW | American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org)
EVENTS
Tuesday, March 16 – Saturday, March 20
Tuesday, March 16
1. Tuesday, 12Noon (PT); 3:00pm (ET), Deadly Iran Sanctions: Lessons Learned from Iraq and Palestine
Webinar
Register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
*2. Facebook Livestream* https://www.facebook.com/NoSanctionsOnIran/live/
You do not need a facebook account to watch this live on facebook!
Accessibility: Event will be live-captioned
Noura Erakat, Negar Mortazavi, Zainab Saleh, and Assa Rad will discuss how sanctions and embargoes affect ordinary people, and whether sanctions and embargoes are useful policy tools.
Host: No Sanctions on Iran Coalition
2. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, LTSS for all vs the California crisis in long-term care for elderly & disabled
Online meeting
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84427185303; 5303; phone: 669 900 9128; Meeting ID: 844 2718
SF Gray Panther meeting, about the Emerging California Crisis of Long Term-Term Care Support & Services for Seniors and People with Disabilities: What can we do? What are we doing?
Hear Lindsay Imai Hong, of Hand-in-Hand and the LTSS 4 All Grassroots Coalition talk about the campaign and the Stakeholders Advisory Group of the Governor’s Master Plan on Aging. We’ll discuss the Governor’s Long Term Support and Services (LTSS) plan, current bills in Sacramento to expand LTSS, and the “Caring Across Generations” vision and agenda.
Info: LTSS for all vs. the California crisis in long-term care for elderly & disabled : Indybay
3. Tuesday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), BDS 101: How to Join the Movement
Webinar
Register: Webinar Registration – Zoom
In this one-hour session, you’ll be introduced to the foundations, goals, and history of the BDS movement. Olivia Katbi Smith, North American organizer for the BDS Movement, will tell us about how Palestinian civil society is leading the movement. You’ll also hear about some of the products which are being boycotted, and learn about the parallels with the boycott of apartheid in South Africa.
Importantly, you will also learn how to participate in BDS campaigns yourself! We’ll introduce you to CJPME’s new boycott campaign against Pillsbury, and we’ll discuss the campaign against Canada’s drone contract with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company.
Host: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
4. Tuesday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm (ET), From Hammer and Hoe to #BAmazonUnion: A Conversation with Dr. Robin Kelley
Webinar Registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom
Also see event #8
Join Dr. Robin DG Kelley, author of “Hammer and Hoe: Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression” and Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at U.C.L.A. to discuss the history and significance of the BAmazon Union struggle led by majority Black workers in Bessemer, Alabama who are taking on Amazon and fighting for a union.
Alabama — particularly the Birmingham-Bessemer area — has a centuries-old tradition of Black-led organizing against enslavement, racist land seizures, Jim Crow racism, prison-convict labor, segregation laws and Ku Klux Klan violence. Within living memory of the Amazon workers and their families is their starkly dedicated struggle against white-supremacist assassinations and bombings of Black churches and homes during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Join the Support Alabama Amazon Union campaign as we discuss this rich history of struggle, the growing solidarity events on March 20th in solidarity with Bessemer workers, and how we can continue to grow this movement!
Host: Support Alabama Amazon workers
5. Tuesday, 5:30pm – 7:30pm, Tenants Together Collective Support & Tenant Clinic/ Clínica de Apoyo Colectivo y Derechos de Inquilinas/os
Register Here:
Join if are a tenant and/or a tenant advocate with questions about your rights and to learn about what is happening regarding our #CancelRent campaign!
EVERY other TUESDAY from 5:30pm – 7:30pm
What to expect:
* Share updates on local, regional, state and national policies
* We will answer questions and concerns
* It will be space for sharing stories and popular education
* Collectively strategize to #CancelRent
Wednesday, March 17
6. Wednesday, 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Bayview Hunters Point Environmental Justice meeting
Online
For computer access but are not registered with a Zoom account:
- click on this link: MEETING LINK
- in the new window in your browser, click “Open Zoom Meeting” button
- enter in the meeting ID: 882 0171 4316
- if the link does not work, go to: www.zoom.com and click in the top right “Join a Meeting,” and then entire the meeting ID (above)
To download ZOOM ap: on your computer or smartphone to make a free account (for meetings):
- go to the App store or Google Play store, search for “Zoom,” and click “download” – the app should now be on your home screen
- open the app, click “join” on Zoom’s home screen, and enter the meeting ID: 882 0171 4316 OR follow steps 1-3 above, and your app should automatically open
To listen on smartphone: to the meeting over the phone (“Dial-in”):
dial the #: +1 (408) 638-0968 and when prompted, dial the meeting ID on your keypad: 882 0171 4316
7. Wednesday, 4:00pm – 6:30pm, No Eviction at 1921 Walnut St! Rally & Community BBQ
1921 Walnut St.
Berkeley
*If you’d like to help organize for the rally/bbq, DM TANC or email us at organizing@baytanc.com ! We could use extra outreach help!*
Join tenants of 1921 Walnut Street for a community BBQ + rally against their eviction! UC Berkeley is threatening to demolish their rent controlled building and replace it with above market rate housing. UC Berkeley has long since pushed up housing rates throughout the city of Berkeley. Their student housing is used as a source of income: it is remarkably expensive, is not controlled by rent ordinances, and is part of the privatization of our public education system. We can’t let this happen. Tenants will not move! We’ll fight!
More info:
The tenants at 1921 Walnut Street are facing eviction and displacement from their rent-controlled apartments. This struggle will have potentially devastating consequences for the tenants, many of whom have lived here for over a decade.
1921 Walnut St is a 111-year-old, rent controlled apartment building. The University has bought the property and is trying to evict all tenants from the property in order to further develop the entire block of Walnut Street. The fact remains that the UC has pushed forward gentrification by consistently listing their housing stock at prices well above market rate. This is therefore not only an attack on 1921 tenants, but part of a larger assault on our right to affordable housing in the Bay Area.
Hosts: Berkeley Tenants and TANC
Info: (2) No Eviction at 1921 Walnut St! Rally & Community BBQ | Facebook
Thursday, March 18
8. Thursday, March 20: International Day of Solidarity With Alabama Amazon Workers & Against Union Busting on World Day Against Racism
See site for full listings: March 20 – Support Amazon Workers
San Francisco: 10:00am – Picket & Speakout
7th and Berry St, SF
Contact United Front Committee for a Labor Party at committeeforlaborparty@gmail.com or 415-533-5642
Facebook: (6) For A Mass Labor Party In The USA | Facebook
Oakland: 1:00pm – Car caravan & Rally
Meet at: Lake Merritt BART Parking lot
8th & Oak St., Oakland
2:30pm – Ending rally at Snow Park (19th & Harrison)
Cravan to several Oakland Amazon Hubs for 2:30pm ending rally at Snow Park (19th and Harrison)
Contact Support Amazon Workers – Bay Area at bayarea@supportamazonworkers.org or 510-813-4687
Facebook: March 20 Day of Action: Fight Racism and Union Busting! | Facebook
9. Thursday, 12Noon – 1:30pm, The Rights of Nature & LandBack: Indigenous-Led Movements for the Protection of Mother Earth
Anyone On/Off Facebook
Register: Zoom with Q&A and special opportunities to get involved.: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_mZu1wvKTSWSZO8RrkB60RA
In the last few years, two Indigenous-led movements have been boldly leading a way forward for tribal communities and climate justice by reclaiming sovereignty rooted in ancestral knowledge. Both of these movements radically shift the colonial system embedded in the DNA of the United States (and Canada), and how we relate to the land, water and spirit of Turtle Island. With this webinar we will share the power of the Rights of Nature and LandBack movements from those leading the way, and explore the potential for collaboration or connection between them.
Info: The Rights of Nature & LandBack: Indigenous-Led Movements for the Protection of Mother Earth | Facebook or Rights of Nature & LandBack: Indigenous-led movements for the Protection of Mother Earth : Indybay
10. Thursday, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Call to Challenge: The Urgency of the Needs of Girls and Gender Expansive Youth in SF
Online Register: Call to Challenge: The Urgency of the Needs of Girls and Gender Expansive Youth in SF (alliance4girls.org)
If you have any accommodation needs, please let us know at least 48 hours prior to the workshop. We’ll make every effort to provide them.
Join us to call out the urgent needs of girls* and gender-expansive youth in San Francisco. Hear from girls and gender-expansive youth speakers on their experiences and challenges. Learn from youth-serving organizations in the city and youth researchers about their research and data on COVID-19’s impact on girls and gender-expansive youth.
YWFC San Francisco members Yunia Guardado, Kayla Hall, Ja’Nia Moore, and Stephanie Mandigo will be featured speakers. Mayor London Breed, SF Board of Supervisors, and other Department heads will be in attendance. Along with Alliance for Girls, we will be sharing our research and data from our survey on COVID-19’s impact on girls and gender-expansive youth.
This event is co-sponsored by the Young Women’s Freedom Center, Alliance for Girls, and the San Francisco Department On the Status of Women. The event will include a special
honoring ceremony to uplift key leaders in the city who have championed gender equity.
11. Thursday, 4:00pm (PT); 7:00pm (ET), Virtual Rally – Reclaim Nestlé’s Troubled Waters
RSVP: Nestlé’s Troubled Waters | Digital Rally Registration (typeform.com)
Stop the corporate take over of our water supply!
For decades, Nestlé has made billions of dollars bottling and selling public water, leaving behind a trail of damaged ecosystems and broken promises.
This is an important opportunity to learn more about the dangers of allowing multinational corporations to carry out their plan to take control of our water supply, and what you can do to stop them.
The event will feature speeches by experts and water protectors from across North America, as well as a chance for you to take action from the comfort of your own home.
Now that Nestlé has sold its North American bottling business to private equity firm One Rock Capital, the fight is about to get even more intense. Local water defenders need your help now more than ever
Host Story of Stuff
Info from SumOfUs
12. Thursday, 5:00pm – 6:30pm, BIPOC WOMEN: Strong Roots, Moving Forward!
Free Online – Register:
Celebrate International Women’s Day, and month, with us on THURSDAY, MARCH 18, with an all-star panel of BIPOC Women: Barbara Ransby, Loubna Qutami, Michelle Cook and Samia Shoman! They’ll share about the intersection of their struggles, plus the challenges they face in their struggle for liberation.
BARBARA RANSBY is a distinguished professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies, and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago; she also directs the campus Social Justice Initiative. Ransby is the author of many books, including the award-winning Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Recently she was named to the Freedom Scholars, a select group of academics at the “forefront of movements for economic and social justice.”.
LOUBNA QUTAMI is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. Co-founder of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC), she was former Executive Director of the Arab Cultural and Community Center (ACCC). Qutami is also a policy member of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network.
MICHELLE COOK is human rights lawyer born of the Honagháahnii (One Who Walks Around You) Clan of the Diné (Navajo) Nation. She is a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) Candidate at the University of Arizona’s Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. Her dissertation concerns the intersections of indigenous human rights, divestment, and gender in the United States.
SAMIA SHOMAN, ED.D has been a Bay Area educator and administrator for 21 years. This year she served on the California Department of Education Model Ethnic Studies Curriculum Committee. Her passion as a Social Science educator is developing curriculum and instruction tools for secondary school educators. Shoman is Co-Coordinator of MECA’s “Teach Palestine” project; in 2019 she co-led an educators’ trip to Palestine.
Host: Middle East Children’s Alliance
13. Thursday, 5:00pm (PT); 8:00pm (ET), “Path to Peace–The Case for a Peace Agreement to End the Korean War”
Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eTohlkHJSRGsZxrZ84FzzA
The Feminist Case for A Peace Agreement to End the Korean War
Description
Feminist peacemakers are calling on the Biden administration to take a peace-first approach with North Korea in order to make progress on longstanding issues such as denuclearization and human rights. Hear from authors of the recent groundbreaking report “Path to Peace: The Case for a Peace Agreement to End the Korean War” by the transnational feminist campaign Korea Peace Now! on why feminist leadership is crucial for the peace process to be successful and lasting.
Speakers:
- Christine Ahn, Women Cross DMZ
- Henri Feron, Center for International Policy
- Catherine Killough, Women Cross DMZ
- Hyun Lee, Women Cross DMZ
- Youngmi Cho, Korean Women’s Movement for Peace
- Moderated by Madeleine Rees, WILPF
A copy of the report can be found here
Host: Korea Peace Now
Friday, March 19
14. Friday, 12 Noon, San Francisco: Defund Line 3 Tour of Shame
Meet at Plaza in front of
555 California St.
SF
RSVP:
& Off / On facebook
Masks; social distancing; bring hand sanitizer / wipes
Stay home if you are sick
We’ll tour different bank offices and branches in the area.
About:
For seven years, Indigenous communities in Minnesota and their allies have been resisting the construction of Line 3, an oil pipeline connecting the tar sands in Canada to Wisconsin. Enbridge Energy, the company responsible, has a terrible environmental track record, and this pipeline would violate several treaties with the Ojibwe people and cross 200 bodies of water.
Indigenous led water protectors in Minnesota are taking action every day to disrupt the construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline. They have called for solidarity actions on financial and other corporate targets connected to infrastructure fights.
JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, MUFG/Union Bank and Citibank are some of the top funders of Enbridge.
Host: Diablo Rising Tide
Info: (1) San Francisco: Defund Line 3 Tour of Shame | Facebook
15. Friday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Shut Down the Police Officers Association
SF Police Officers Association (outside)
800 Bryant St. (at 6th Street)
SF
Wear masks; social distancing
RESIST with Mothers on the March, Black and Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality, Family’s who loved ones have been killed by SFPD, and Community
– Demand the San Francisco Police Officers Association be Shut Down!
– The SF Police Officers Association Be Declared a Non Grata Organization
– Demand the Police Officers Bill of Rights be Abolished.
– Jail Killer Cops – we want killer cops to be charged with murder.
– Abolish the Police
Weekly resistance
Saturday, March 20
16. Saturday, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Building A Revolutionary Movement
Companeros Del Barrio PreSchool (meeting is in a courtyard)
474 Valencia St. (nr. 16th St.)
SF
Mask / Social distancing
Public Transportation: 16th St. BART; SF MUNI: #22, #49 # 14 buslines
All are invited and needed to build a much needed movement in this time of history.
Flier at: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfR2eqhCgF/
